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nvsbl says:

joel meyerowitz "out of the ordinary 1970-1980"












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marek.wykowski    says:

hey Waxy -> :-))))
Posted 41 months ago. (permalink)

Søren Bock-Larsen says:

“The coffee you’re drinking is obviously a product that has a rich history here in Europe, but it’s also just a cup of coffee”

-Christopher Williams
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james1hour says:

www.tinyvices.com/V21_Various_21_0.html

Various photographs 21 by tinyvices/tim barber....it's long but there are gems throughout

I love these just because of the randomness and cluster fuck of different styles. Hints of HSCP, hints of la pura vida...and pushing the idea of what makes an "interesting" image.

Saw Shveckle get a photo in, and brian david stevens for those who know him.
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bryanF. says:

"I will spend the rest of my life
taking meaningful photos
that are more than just ‘blogworthy’
I want them to go in the textbooks
that are issued to my children
and my children’s children.

I will invest money
in technology and travel
to be at the most relevant events
freelancing
and finding my photos in relevant periodicals (not on the web/a flickr account)"


The Future of the Party Pic Industry
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Dan Clinch [gobgimmick] says:

Posted 41 months ago. (permalink)

.. greg ..    says:

Wow, this is worth taking a long look at.
Posted 41 months ago. (permalink)

curdiogenes says:

First place story WPP 09 -

Contrasto.

I like.
Posted 40 months ago. (permalink)

erik neufurth    says:

sugimoto, baraboo
Posted 40 months ago. (permalink)

funkaoshi    says:

Raghubir Singh.
Posted 40 months ago. (permalink)

flat5 says:

Vladimir Birgus




.
Posted 40 months ago. (permalink)

thechrisproject    says:

bryan - I finally unsubscribed from HRO yesterday after threatening a few times. It's either too far over my head or so fucking cynical that it was making me hate things I used to like. When I started reading I used to pimp it out to others all the time.

Erik - Is that by the guy that basically shoots an entire movie in one frame?
Posted 40 months ago. (permalink)

__Manu__ [deleted] says:

Nice works:
www.noorimages.com/
Posted 40 months ago. (permalink)

erik neufurth    says:

chris: yes.
Posted 40 months ago. (permalink)

__Manu__ [deleted] says:

HCB : The Europeans
Posted 39 months ago. (permalink)

John Goldsmith    says:

Peter van Agtmael/Magnum Photos
Posted 39 months ago. (permalink)

Account inactive go to: www.jamesdodd.net says:

video - The Dear Leader - Christopher Morris, VII
www.rethink-dispatches.com/multimedia/the-dear-leader/

sort of wanted to start a new post around this video
Posted 38 months ago. (permalink)

.Purf says:

Steven Ahlgren:







plus interview
Posted 37 months ago. (permalink)

Dr Karanka says:

Dennis McGrath
Posted 37 months ago. (permalink)

mort* says:

www.rjshaughnessy.com
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Annie (sleeping) says:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kdtpy/Borges_and_Me_Libraries_and_Labyrinths/

not photography, but literature.

Jorge Luis Borges. Became blind in his 50s. In the process of becoming blind he began to see the world in a new way.

Sorry for the wiki link. It's pretty comprehensive though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges

I will add to this later.
Posted 37 months ago. (permalink)

Mark_H    says:

Annie's first link again:

BBC RAdio 4 broadcast, for a short time only
Posted 37 months ago. (permalink)

Annie (sleeping) says:

Fuck. I'm such a moron. I can't work this shit out. ...?! Thanks Mark :)
Posted 37 months ago. (permalink)

John Goldsmith    says:

erik neufurth    says:

wow! thanks, waxy. that´s great. who ever the official hardcore white house photographer is, he - or she, or it - did a great job. makes me a bit wandering about the way they wanted to be represented. but hell, we´re a happy family and we love and invite you all! weird that there´s no peace pipe smoking old apache pulling the fleas out of some afro´s child´s afro in the foreground.
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erik neufurth    says:

pirates of the caribbean
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flat5 says:

in case you missed this the first time around...

www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/3484052229/

joni invited one from that stream to hcsp.. they haven't accepted yet
Posted 37 months ago. (permalink)

erik neufurth    says:

yup, and jared invited it to that other group... also without success. maybe because they were afraid of being connected to threesomes.
Posted 37 months ago. (permalink)

pH [浪人] [deleted] says:

vimeo.com/993998

diada pointed this out.
genius
Posted 37 months ago. (permalink)

123regina says:

In the night

Out of my window late at night I gape
And see the stars but do not watch them really,
And hear the trains but do not listen clearly;
Inside my mind I turn about to keep
Myself awake, yet am not there entirely.
Something of me is out in the dark landscape.
How much am I then what I think, how much what I feel?
How much the eye that seems to keep stars straight?
Do I control what I can contemplate
Or is it my vision that’s amenable?
I turn in my mind, my mind is a room whose wall
I can see the top of but never completely scale.
All that I love is, like the night, outside,
Good to be gazed at, looking as if it could
With a simple gesture be brought inside my head
Or in my heart. But my thoughts about it divide
Me from my object. Now deep in my bed
I turn and the world turns on the other side.

Elizabeth Jennings



good night


edit: just googled the first line. now with the right spelling of the author's name.
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__Manu__ [deleted] says:

Raghu Rai's new book on Mumbai coming out in next April:
www.indianexpress.com/news/-Lover-boy--revisits-city-for-...
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pipeclayed (adam) says:

I love this image:



I saw it at a Boris Savelev exhibition- on here in London for another week.
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pipeclayed (adam) says:

Might be of interest: www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/may/24/everlasting-moments-f...

Especially:

There was a widespread fascination with photography in the late 19th century, shared by the Norwegian painter Munch, the Swedish writer Strindberg (who thought the camera magical) and the Danish pioneer of photojournalism, Jacob Riis, who brought the conditions of New York's slums to public attention in his 1891 book How the Other Half Lives. The complex relationship between photographers, their subjects and the world has also been the subject of some considerable movies, among them Malle's Pretty Baby, Antonioni's Blow-Up, Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies and Kieslowski's Camera Buff.
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erik neufurth    says:

bryan´s mentioning "tulsa" reminded me of the nice, little, fucked-up movie "trona" by david fenster i´ve recently seen. www.imdb.com/title/tt0445771/
Posted 37 months ago. (permalink)

Arcady Genkin    says:

larger
Hu Jintao's speach broadcast in Beijin. - Alexander F. Yuan - AP
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Claydo in Oz    says:

Interesting essay in the NY Times about famous photos being staged: lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/essay-4/
Posted 35 months ago. (permalink)

123regina says:

the poetry of the small things
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Dr Karanka says:

I think Bruno's imaginary photograph of a baby dressed as a nazi pushing a baby dressed as a jew into an oven will always stay in my mind
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123regina says:

yeah that movie is bizar.
Posted 35 months ago. (permalink)

Paul Russell99    says:

Gene Smith, Ansel Adams, Walker Evans, Doisneau et al. in colour

Via The Online Photographer
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james1hour says:

I was going through that slideshow and I was thinking to myself...where's alex webb? Then the king of kodachrome comes up on pic 17 or something haha
Posted 35 months ago. (permalink)

Ged Mason says:

Some great pictures in that collection.
Posted 35 months ago. (permalink)

james1hour says:

American Suburb X has a facebook page which contains a library of images from many famous photographers....worth a look and a great reference when you want to find some famous images/bodies of work

I have no clue if he's really allowed to post those on facebook? Seems scandalous..
Posted 35 months ago. (permalink)

oscar juarez says:

yeah seems dodgy, and they put momentarily a Charlie White photo in the Jeff Wall album.
Posted 35 months ago. (permalink)

mort* says:

Brad Troemel's new tumblr......

thejogging.tumblr.com/post/149002868/ball-in-cup-2009-vid...
Posted 35 months ago. (permalink)

flat5 says:

todd fisher has updated his site since my last vist:


www.toddfisher.net/

series 2,3, & 4 are nice in that they aren't supposed to work at all in theory but they totally do in reality.
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JB.Maher    says:

tony ray jones

www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/pr/391619779/Science_&_So...
Posted 32 months ago. (permalink)

Hans Palmboom says:

Alexander Gronsky: www.flickr.com/photos/gronsky/
Posted 31 months ago. (permalink)

james.morris [deleted] says:

woah, great photos... I really love the portraits & corporate set.
Posted 31 months ago. (permalink)

Dr Karanka says:

donna ferrato:


Posted 31 months ago. (permalink)

Arty Smokes (deaf mute) says:

Dr Karanka The guy on the floor should be a photographer.
Posted 31 months ago. (permalink)

erik neufurth    says:

for those in new york: since he´s obviously not willing to do some proper blantant selfpromotion: todd fisher and others at the aperture foundation, opening tonight.
network.slideluckpotshow.com/events/slideluck-potshow-xiv...

also opening tonight, but maybe a bit too artsy fartsy :): shaun kessler at capricious space. 103 broadway, first floor, brooklyn
capriciousspace.com/
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Brian Reitz    says:

I'll hit up Todd's tomorrow night then.
Posted 31 months ago. (permalink)

Skye Nott says:

micahlidberg.com/viewlarge/they.html
Posted 31 months ago. (permalink)

Mark_H    says:

Checked out Winterreise by Luc Delahaye from my local library.

If you can get a copy of this, have a look at it.

Here's a link describing it:
andrewconroy.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/luc-delahaye-winter...
Posted 30 months ago. (permalink)

Arty Smokes (deaf mute) says:

"Heroin overdoses, families scavenging on rubbish dumps, the immediate aftermath of street robberies, smalltime mafia violence, bruised psychiatric hospital patients, and vodka binges in squalid, Dickensian conditions."

I get enough of that at home, but sounds like a winner to me.
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funkaoshi    says:

Twix commercial.
Posted 29 months ago. (permalink)

Arty Smokes (deaf mute) says:

funkaoshi Nice. That belongs in the visual puns thread. :)
The first shot of the sun through trees is one of Sofia Coppola's signatures, although she was by no means to the first to use it. I love a bit of lens flare. :)
Posted 29 months ago. (permalink)

Mark_H    says:

Those that are fans of Lee Friedlander's nature work, frames busily crammed with branches, leaves, fences, and wires, may be interested in Ray Metzker's book Landscapes. Here are a few sample images:








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Mark_H    says:

To Ray's great credit, his Landscapes book has been deemed the worst kind of fine art for display in healthcare settings:

www.healthcarefineart.com/2007/09/worst-landscape.html

on account of his images being:

•Distorted
•Disoriented
•Buggy
•Many Shadows
•Dried dead foliage
•Blurry areas
•Busy
•No focal point or orientation
•No color (just Black & White)
•No sense of depth
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Paul Russell99    says:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWa0dZMHYeE
Posted 29 months ago. (permalink)

Arty Smokes (deaf mute) says:

Amusing/horrifying image in the Mail:

Full size and story.
(Kinda ironic for the paper that is always moaning that "danger" signs are "Health and Safety gone mad!")
Posted 29 months ago. (permalink)

tijo    says:

The Camera Eye by Rush

I
Grim faced and forbidding
Their faces closed tight
An angular mass of New Yorkers
Pacing in rhythm
Race the oncoming night
They chase through the streets of Manhattan
Head first humanity
Pause at a light
Then flow through the streets of the city

They seem oblivious
To a soft spring rain
Like an English rain
So light, yet endless
From a leaden sky

The buildings are lost
In their limitless rise
My feet catch the pulse
And the purposeful stride

I feel the sense of possibilities
I feel the wrench of hard realities
The focus is sharp in the city

II
Wide angle watcher
On life's ancient tales
Steeped in the history of London

Green and grey washes
In the wispy white veil
Mist in the streets of Westminster
Wistful and weathered
The pride still prevails
Alive in the streets of the city

Are they oblivious
To this quality?
A quality of light unique to
Every city's streets

Pavements may teem
With intense energy
But the city is calm
In this violent sea

I feel the sense of possibilities
I feel the wrench of hard realities
The focus is sharp in the city
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james.morris [deleted] says:

Mark: thanks for the pointer to the Metzker book -- very interesting. I wonder who else has recently rethought the landscape.

Mostly unrelatedly, I tripped over a photo of Brian Ulrich at work:

__Manu__ [deleted] says:

www.privatephotoreview.com/en/review/archive.php
Posted 29 months ago. (permalink)

mort* says:

Garry's Hubcaps


Posted 28 months ago. (permalink)

Mark_H    says:

Found this while looking in the Mamiya 7ii pool for "65mm":

KJ3 (recently truncated)    says:

That's lovely.
Posted 27 months ago. (permalink)

flat5 says:

"I wish there were more pictures like this. The sharpness of 6x7 can emulate hyperacuity, which lends images a surreal, hyper-present quality. "

sure, it's sharp and whatnot but i think it's more about the wide-angle/shallow-depth_of_field that's giving it that look.. you just can't make a picture like that with smaller format cameras..
maths.
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Hans Palmboom says:

Hans Aarsman quitted photography and sold all his gear. He gave away all his photo's, downloadble for free on the internet in high resolution and now explains how to make an interesting photograph... or not.

vimeo.com/7847636
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pe‡er says:

ha, I like how a bicycle is sitting in the corner of the stage
Posted 24 months ago. (permalink)

_Pachinko_ says:

65mm on 6Χ7 gives a feeling you can never achieve with a small camera and I dont think its a sharpness issue. Most people would pick a moderate wide lens for their 35mm camera, thinking it sort of matches their eye's field of view. The problem with that is that you lose the magnification of a longer lens: faraway things look too far and small. If you put a 50-60mm lens on, you get a better magnification but the lens is too narrow. Thinks start not to fit in your frame and inevitably you blow things up when you print and you end up with the "tele look". Either way you get a "look" but your photos never look as natural as the wide AND long of the 6X7.

On the other hand with the 6X7 you're stuck with a large, heavy camera and slow lenses and you miss photos because of that. Cant have it all.
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123regina says:

gotta love aarsman
Posted 24 months ago. (permalink)

Hans Palmboom says:

Yep. Nice man to meet. Afterwards we had some drinks together. :)

Old photography:

www.shorpy.com/
Posted 24 months ago. (permalink)

pipeclayed (adam) says:

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east_orkney_and_shetla...
Posted 24 months ago. (permalink)

123regina says:

next time there is some silly quarrel going on here or elsewhere on the internet i'll be thinking of this.
Posted 23 months ago. (permalink)

.Purf says:

104 years old comic stuff by Lyonel Feininger
Posted 23 months ago. (permalink)

__Manu__ [deleted] says:

He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died


photooftheday.hughcrawford.com/1979.htm#1979/1
Posted 19 months ago. (permalink)